Explained requirements for publishing a revised Candidate Rec. ISSUE-76 and the rest of ISSUE-77
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<em class="rfc2119">must</em> be <strong>at least</strong> four weeks
after publication, and <em class="rfc2119">should</em> be longer for
complex documents,</li>
- <li>If the document has previously been published as a Candidate
- Recommendation, <em class="rfc2119">must</em> document the changes
- since the previous Candidate Recommendation, </li>
<li><em class="rfc2119">must</em> show that the specification has received
<a href="#wide-review">wide review</a>, and</li>
<li><em class="rfc2119">may</em> identify features in the document that
are considered "at risk". These features <em class="rfc2119">may</em>
- be removed before advancement to Recommendation without a requirement to
- publish a new Candidate Recommendation.</li>
+ be removed before advancement to Proposed Recommendation without a
+ requirement to publish a new Candidate Recommendation.</li>
</ul>
<p>The Director <em class="rfc2119">must</em> announce the publication of a
Candidate Recommendation to other W3C groups and to the public, and <em class="rfc2119">must</em>
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expected next step)</li>
<li><a href="#Note">Working Group Note</a></li>
</ul>
- <p class="issue">Add an explanation of publishing a revised Candidate
- Recommendation. <a href="http://www.w3.org/community/w3process/track/issues/77">ISSUE-77</a></p>
- <p>If there are any <a href="#substantive-change">substantive changes</a>
- made to a Candidate Recommendation other than to remove features
- explicitly identified as "at risk", the Working Group <em class="rfc2119">must</em>
- repeat the full process of publication as a Candidate Recommendation
- before the Working Group can request Recommendation status.</p>
<p> <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/organization.html#AC">Advisory
Committee</a> representatives <em class="rfc2119">may</em> <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/acreview.html#ACAppeal">appeal</a>
the decision to advance the technical report.</p>
<h4 id="revised-cr">7.4.1 Revised Candidate Recommendation</h4>
+ <p>If there are any <a href="#substantive-change">substantive changes</a>
+ made to a Candidate Recommendation other than to remove features
+ explicitly identified as "at risk", the Director <em class="rfc2119">must</em>
+ approve the publication of a revised Candidate Recommendation. This is
+ because substantive changes will generally require a new Exclusion Opportunity
+ per <a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy/#sec-Exclusion">section
+ 4</a> of the <a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy">W3C
+ Patent Policy</a> [<a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/refs.html#ref-patentpolicy">PUB33</a>].
+ Note that approval is <em>expected</em> to be fairly simple compared to
+ getting approval for a transition to Candidate Recommendation.</p>
+ <p>In addition the Working Group</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li><em class="rfc2119">must</em> show that the revised specification
+ meets all Working Group requirements, or explain why the requirements
+ have changed or been deferred,</li>
+ <li><em class="rfc2119">must</em> specify the deadline for further
+ comments, which <em class="rfc2119">must</em> be <strong>at least</strong>
+ four weeks after publication, and <em class="rfc2119">should</em> be
+ longer for complex documents,</li>
+ <li><em class="rfc2119">must</em> document the changes since the previous
+ Candidate Recommendation, </li>
+ <li><em class="rfc2119">must</em> show that the proposed changes have
+ received <a href="#wide-review">wide review</a>, and</li>
+ <li><em class="rfc2119">may</em> identify features in the document that
+ are considered "at risk". These features <em class="rfc2119">may</em>
+ be removed before advancement to Proposed Recommendation without a
+ requirement to publish a new Candidate Recommendation.</li>
+ </ul>
<h3 id="rec-pr">7.5 Proposed Recommendation</h3>
<p>In addition to meeting the <a href="#transition-reqs">general
requirements for advancement</a>,</p>